Over $200,000 in federal stimulus funds were used to relocate one manzanita bush from a highway median in San Francisco. This feat was undertaken even though the normal practice is simply to bulldoze unwanted vegetation in the path of roadway expansion.

Every life is precious, explained Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) in whose district the expenditure was made. Just because the same plant can be bought from a commercial nursery for under $20 doesnt mean we should wantonly kill one merely because it is unwanted. Luckily, we were able to find it an adoptive home.

The plants new home will be somewhere in San Franciscos Presidio. Its precise location is being kept secret to prevent gawkers who want to see the $200,000 bush from possibly trampling it to death.

While some may perceive that this escapade is another in a long list of wasteful government expenditures, Pelosi pointed out that the $200,000 in spending helped support employment in my district, which is exactly what the stimulus bill was supposed to do.

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Every life is precious, explained Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) in whose district the expenditure was made. Just because the same plant can be bought from a commercial nursery for under $20 doesnt mean we should wantonly kill one merely because it is unwanted. Luckily, we were able to find it an adoptive home.

She says the exact opposite about unborn children where she is willing to spend money to abort them rather than to help them to be born alive.

“While some may perceive that this escapade is another in a long list of wasteful government expenditures, Pelosi pointed out that the $200,000 in spending helped support employment in my district, which is exactly what the stimulus bill was supposed to do.

Under Keynesian economic theory, total economic activity = C + I + G, where C is consumer spending, I = Investment and G = government spending. So, in Keynesian-think when government spends money to dig holes and then fill them back up, it has the same exact benefit as when consumers spend money. In other words, there is no such thing as wasteful government spending.

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